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Jada Pinkett Smith Talks About Past Sex Addiction Battle The actress revealed her battle as a self-diagnosed sex addict on her “Red Table Talk” series. "My sort of addictions jump. They jump around. When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex. You know what I'm saying?" On a previous episode, she admitted to having five orgasms a day when she was 21. She said she has dealt with multiple addictions. Pinkett Smith recalled a time when

As for her struggles with drinking, “I remember reaching a rock bottom that time I was in the house by myself and I had those two bottles of wine and was going for the third bottle,” she says. “And I was like, ‘Now hold up. You’re in this house by yourself going onto your third bottle of wine? You might have a problem.'”

"So I went cold turkey," she continued. "That’s the thing about me, I can go cold turkey. I am a binger, and I always have to watch myself and I can just get obsessed with things. It’s not what you’re doing but how you’re with it. Why you’re doing it. It’s the behavior that’s attached to it because if you want to have a lot of sex, that’s great, but why are you having all that sex? That’s what you’ve got to look at.”

"Red Table Talk" premiered in May as a weekly Facebook Watch talk show bringing together three generations of women — Smith's daughter Willow also occasionally joins her and Banfield-Jones for episodes — for "a series of candid conversations with family and friends." Previous guests have included Tiffany Haddish and Gabrielle Union, with Facebook ordering an additional 13 episodes to premiere this fall.

"My grandmother taught me about self-pleasuring because she wanted me to know that that pleasure was from me," she said. "She didn't want me to fall into the hands of a man and, if he gave me pleasure, to think that that was him. And she taught me at 9. At 9!"

"I think by your age I gave myself multiples first, multiple orgasms. I did," she continued. "I was really into it at one point. Just because I was in an exploration state and I was abstaining from men. And I actually think I went through kind of an addiction, too, with it ... And then one day I was like, ‘Enough. You're having five orgasms a day.' "